Quotes About Enlightenment

What is most needed right now is evolving human consciousness. Without that, science, technology, development, everything will go waste.

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and prayed for light and understanding.

If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.

Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.

We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

The True One was there from time immemorial. He is there today and ever there you will find. He never died nor will he ever die. ... Look within, you will see Him there enshrined.

To Zen, time and eternity are one.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time.

Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.

Time is three eyes and eight elbows.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

Can you really see and hear Him, or is He still the Unknown God to you? It's time for an awakening.

Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.

There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!

What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?